WERU’s News Report interviews Dean Wilkie, nuclear reactor operations at a U.S. Department of Energy test reactor in Idaho (At 28:50 in) – When the accident happened back in March 2011 there was a power pole, one of these huge power poles, inside of the Daiichi facility, inside the area there, and the ground that it was set on became super-saturated with water and they had a mud slide and that whole tower went down […] At Fukushima now, what we’re seeing, all of this work that they’ve been doing with these walls and then it’s causing the water to back up, it’s starting to saturate soil that’s underneath the buildings and in adjacent areas around the buildings. Couple that with the fact that there are known fractures in that soil — it was very obvious during the earthquake. Full broadcast here

Nuclear Expert Gordon Edwards interview on the Green Power Wellness Show (At 32:00 in) – The worry with Unit No. 4, even though there was no fuel in the core of the reactor, there’s a spent fuel pool very precariously perched up above 5 floors. If the plant were to collapse — which it’s been showing signs of doing — then that fuel would be all over the place and it would be impossible to cool. And that would be a real… you could get far greater emissions than we did initially. Full interview here

“The uranium bomb which the United States dropped on Hiroshima at the end of World War II released 89 tera becquerels. It killed 140,000 people – many instantly, others within weeks of the blast as they succumbed to severe radiation burns.”

“A recent study was prepared for Greenpeace Germany by international nuclear safety expert Dr. Helmut Hirsch. Dr. Hirsch’s assessment, based on data published by the French government’s radiation protection agency (IRSN) and the Austrian government’s Central Institute for Meteorology and Geodynamics (ZAMG) found that the total amount of unstable radionuclides Iodine-131 and Caesium-137 released between March 11 and March 23 has been so high that the Fukushima crisis already equates to three INES 7 incidents.

Release of radiation from the stricken reactors has reached 10,000 teraBequerels (10,000 trillion Bequerels) per hour, measured for radioactive Iodine-131.”

how much radiation released? OK, disregarding the plutonium and other super toxic radiological releases for which there is little info, it would at least be good to get in the ballpark, using existing data. If we are already at 2.5 million bombs, this should reflect in measurements, right?

According to JNES’s report “Severe Accident Analyses of Fukushima-Daiich Units 1 to 3? published on IAEA general conference of 9/17/2012, Central research institute of electric power industry evaluated the amount of releases of radioactive material (I-131, Cs-134/137) to Pacific ocean.

Their analysis shows 1.1 ten quadrillion Bq of Iodine-131 and 7.1 thousand trillion Bq of Cs-134/137 were released to Pacific ocean from March.26 to…

In this study, the emissions Cs-137, I-131 and Xe-133 are investigated. Regarding Xe-133, the total release is estimated to be of the order of 6 × 1018 Bq emitted during the explosions of units 1, 2 and 3. The total source term estimated gives a fraction of core inventory of about 8 × 1018 Bq at the time of reactors shutdown. This result suggests that at least 80 % of the core inventory has been released into the atmosphere and indicates a broad meltdown of reactor cores. Total atmospheric releases of Cs-137 and I-131 aerosols are estimated to be 1016 and 1017 Bq, respectively. By neglecting gas/particulate conversion phenomena, the total release of I-131 (gas + aerosol) could be estimated to be 4 × 1017 Bq.

The TEPCO engineers believed that 0.601 EXA-bequerels of Noble gasses were released on March 12, 2011.

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On Wednesday, TEPCO released revised estimates of the amount of radiation leaked from Fukushima.
A short video showing the Hiroshima bombing which released 89 tera becquerels of cesium radiation over Japan. Fukushima is now estimated to have released 360,000 tera becquerels of cesium which is equal to 4,023 Hiroshima bombs.
The estimate is also more than 4 times Chernobyl which is estimated to have released 85,000 tera becquerels of cesium radiation into atmosphere.

“Dr Paolo Scampa, a widely know EU Physicist, single handedly popularized the easily understood Lethal Doses concept. “Lethal Doses” is a world wide, well understood idea that strips Physics bare and offers a brilliant, understandable explanation for all the physics gobbledygook Intelligence agencies and their respective governments use to disguise the brutal truths of the Fukushima Daiichi Disaster."

"Three thousand billion (3,000,000,000,000) Lethal Doses of Radiation means there are 429 Lethal Doses chasing each and every one of us on the planet, to put it in a nutshell. This is up from about 70 Billion Lethal Doses March 23, 2011. It is getting worse everyday without any intervention by the US and the other nuclear powers….”

"Note that the lethality of radioactive reactor cores goes up the first 250,000 years they are out of the reactor – not down."

Well, ok. Let's say the thing spills its contents and the volatilized toxins cook off and drift eastbound. Perhaps your one of the unlucky ones that didn't run like the wind for the southern hemisphere. Maybe you live in a valley where the air like to stagnate and mix with smog from the big cities. A massive dose can accumulate in ditches, sewers, and gopher holes. If the gophers all die and you start to feel a bit fatigued with shortness of breath and a drain full of hair remember one thing. Drink plenty of pure water and stay away from the doctors office as they don't have a cure for you.

"If the gophers all die and you start to feel a bit fatigued with shortness of breath and a drain full of hair remember one thing. Drink plenty of pure water and stay away from the doctors office as they don't have a cure for you."

Your "diagnosis" may be all wrong. Various symptoms have differing causes. Your doctor may be able to help you. Don't ever give up.

Fatigue and Shortness of breath
“WebMD Symptom Checker helps you find the most common medical conditions indicated by the symptoms fatigue and shortness of breath including Heart rhythm disorder, Anemia, and Medication reaction or side-effect.
“There are 117 conditions associated with fatigue and shortness of breath. The links below will provide you with more detailed information on these medical conditions from the WebMD Symptom Checker and help provide a better understanding of causes and treatment of these related conditions….”http://symptomchecker.webmd.com/multiple-symptoms?symptoms=fatigue|shortness-of-breath&symptomids=98|204&locations=66|14

It's only illegal in Nazi Germany. My Master is the one who informs me on what directions to take for good health. Have you ever seen a doctor smoke cigs? Eat greasy cheeseburgers? I suppose your gonna tell me that chemo cures cancer? Does radiation cure cancer too? (to date, the only medical answers). You go ahead Anne and run to the doctor, I'll catch up to you. I can use the only benefit they offer. Pain killers.

Anne, you said that fatigue and shortness of breath can be caused by the doctors prescription. If one stayed away from the doctors office, one wouldn't have the symptoms of a bad chemical reaction caused by their masters hokus pokus. Doctors actually advised patients to gargle and rinse their mouths out with bleach during the flu pandemic of 1918. I care for people with no profit motive and have survival of all as my goal. Most Americans are too strong to go crying to the doctor anyway so it was a mute point.

hbjon, I quote you: "Anne, you said that fatigue and shortness of breath can be caused by the doctors prescription." I never said that. And there are many different doctors. They have different specialities, qualifications, etc. Telling someone not to go to a doctor is ridiculous. Hair can fall out because of a chemical release. Gophers can die because of a chemical also. If there is a nuclear accident, a doctor can prescribe potassium iodine.

hbjon, if we are being personal, I haven't been to a doctor in 7 years, and take no medicine. And I certainly take no drugs legal or illegal. I am 72 years old. However, when I was dying of cancer 24 years ago, and because totally disabled I went to 50 different doctors and I learned something from each of these doctors.

However, I do not prescribe to anyone else as to what they should do. Health care is a personal decision. And I have no formal medical training. And I certainly wouldn't choose to go to you for medical advice. "Nothing to fear, but fear itself" is not my motto as it is yours. Smile all you want, but if you are exposed to enough environmental carcinogens, in the long run smiling won't keep you from dying. Surely you are not expecting to live forever.

Healthcare in society should not be a personal thing, and it should be public. With full disclosure and transparency so that doctors don't pour bleach down your throat to cure you of pneumonia. I can fill this thread full of the facts that help me form my system of beliefs, but I have to move on. In parting, let me say that Americans are too strong to go crying to the doctor about their health problems.

I guess I meant healthcare should be a personal choice. Of course, most people don't have enough money to go to a doctor or to an alternative healer (many of whom also make mistakes). There are so many different health problems, generalizations can tend to be futile.

We are not Nazi Germany, sorry for you to seem to be out of date. Last Sunday we had Goverment elections and there was no Nazi Party mentioned to be of interest nor becoming member of parliament at all!

Also you are totally wrong – it is legal to go to an alternative healer as you want in Germany.

Go to your Master and let you tell more BS.
Maybe you think world is about 6000 Years old too?

It's my understanding that Nazi Germany forced healthcare in the form of hydrocyanic acid upon millions of incarcerated people back in the not-so-distant past. How is it that you were not part of that healthcare experiment? I'm not singling you or anybody out, I just wonder how some people were spared and others weren't. Was it a special salute or handshake?

Oh, you are talking about ZyklonB in the concentration camps. To insinuate that someone is now 100 years old and used to be a Nazi in 1940 seems rude and far-fetched.

I hope someone doesn't hold me responsible for all the depleted uranium used by the US someday, and all the other medical experiments that I don't and have never supported. I am certainly not giving a special salute or a special handshake.

I hope I won't be held responsible for all the nuclear accidents in the US and around the world.

I hope I won't be held responsible for Fukushima Daiichi. But humans are capable of any behavior, and many innocent people have been made political prisoners and sacrificed in the history of the world.

I understand exactly what Hbjon is trying to say and its in between the words/lines and in many ways he is correct.

There have been many horrible things done to humans in the name of science and medicine. Maybe this is/was suppose to be considered a form of intellectual progress in our recent past. Examples that he could conjure up would state otherwise.

Medical science is a big business and no different from cleaning toilets for a living and/or any other business. People are sold garbage/unneeded treatments by most of them and many are now dying from such sales/tactics.

That being said, it is what it is, and all people visiting any doctor must research what they are told, and then if not, they get what they are being told/sold.

We are all responsible for our own health through good practice. Yet when you have a Civil Authority that approves the poisoning of its own population via its written laws, then it does become their sole expense to correct the damages they have done too those they have negatively affected.

I have not been to a doctor 15 years and that is a personal choice since the last time I found out there was nothing they could do/cure for what ails me..

Yes, they are making strides in some areas and they have helped millions have/live better lives, but once again they have also created just as many problems.

Thx Anne!
@hbjon:
If you want discuss ancient history, go to a history forum!
Dont mix modern times and history here. It is bad enough to live as a German with that bad history even now. If you are from USA you have a similar bad history too!
Neither you nor me are responsible for bad things our Fathers and Mothers did!
There have been very bad things all over the world since ancient times of course – but would you condemn Italians for having had a Nero in former times NOW?
@Obe:
I simply dont like reading between lines while beeing blamed for beeing member of some nation which did bad things in former times which i could not stop as i was not born at that time.
Als the whole discussion is off topic since hbjon second comment.

death from iatrogenic causes is listed as 225,000 per year. Mainstream medicine is highly educated, yet rely on pharmaceuticals which are approximately 50,000 times more toxic than herbs with often slim advantage over placebo, …surgery and radiation. Cure rate for cancer is politically skewed and questionable. Codex alimentarius was said to have placed herbal and orthomolecular medicine in drug category in Germany, yet it appears they have excellent herbal therapy continuing. Dont know for sure, but the preceding arguments seems symptomatic of lack of communication rather than substantive

my take is that hbjon was decrying the control, leverage and often ineffective methods of "mainstream" medicine, but unfortunately equated it with the extreme case during Nazi era. The battle to overcome illness is arduous. We can take information or even treatment from mainstream medicine, while realizing their focus is on symptom suppression, not health building. Clean food and water, herbs and exercise form the basis for health, which no doctor will provide. Now we can add reducing exposure to radionuclides. I dont see a fundamental reason for this argument

Anne, thank you for the sincere good luck wishes. Back at you. There is a fundamental reason for this discussion and it is to help people.
Kidney, liver, heart, respiratory, and other systems within the body can fail. Their failures are not from lack of medicine. A sunburn will heal on its own without intervention. Repetitive damage to any groups of cells from radiation will cause irreversible and permanent harm to your biology.
My guess is that radiation will be sensed and people will try to remove themselves from affected areas. Now, I am not a doctor as anne was so quick to point out. I am a dump truck driver and philosopher. I can only make suggestions to myself and remind people that they own their bodies. They have the power to run like the wind when a threat is upon them. You cannot fight this invisible enemy that blows in the wind.

hbjon, I think there are a lot of things a person can do, including moving to a safer place. They are listed in the forum on methods to fight radiation. Even if one were to go to a doctor, that person can take a proactive stance on what treatment and tests s/he will accept, and those s/he will not.

One can also prolong life with prayer and the support from a loving community. This has been proven. And there are many books that can be read, and there are many different kinds of doctors in the US and many different kinds of food stores.

Currently based on past practice we humans are now all "guinea pigs" whether we like it or not…

Radiation contamination will keep us this way as "guinea pigs" for thousands of years into the foreseeable future.

It Nuclear Power Technology as with other energy sources was/were a huge mistake and yes we are in the process of slowly correcting it for future generations and that is one reason why we are all here.

Can anyone with any confidence say there is such a thing as an organic product anymore? Maybe, maybe not, based on the "not of this earth" Radioactive Isotopes spewing all over this planet. Everyone is now throwing the dice..

For every step we take there also seems to be quite the mess we all like to make. It is what it is and let's hope smarter people take charge and that we all stop chasing the money around the planet..

TIS, the quote of 3000 billion lethal doses from Scampa is a good one. How many lethal doses were released from nuclear bomb testing? Note that in no way am I trying to down or upgrade Fukushima as a disaster. Simply this; the Nuke testing, which probably raised the cancer rate to +- 50% and caused a cascade of sickness and death with unknown consequence, yet didnt immediately decimate the population, gives us great comparative value, and also possible insight into how the power players may be thinking

that population argument about texas is misleading. If you look into it, there are way too many people on this earth which has a diameter of only 8000 miles. Try calculating how far mankind would stretch if lined up holding hands.

this article didnt really say anything except how absurd Sierra Clubs density projection is. The truth is that animal species are going extinct at an alarming rate because of humans. The world is being polluted at an alarming, alread over the top level because of too many humans. All the nice place…dont know if you noticed…but they are PACKED FULL of humans. You folks might think thats good, but its not for me. No way

Correct and we have not even touched 70% of the world's surface water as potential solutions. The entire to many people argument is if we trash via pollution, radiation contamination etc. all the/our world's resources, then of course we will be/are over populated..http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aw6Z0TmmPjI

obe, the sea is for sea animals, who would dream of encroaching? The argument that there are too many people is more than the poor use of resources. Even if we were totally solar, there are too many people on the beach, in the parks, in the cities, in India, China, you name it. People are everywhere you go, whats good about it, exactly? Good for the wolves? Elephants? People like me? dolphins? monkeys? Lions? Flowers? Whats so great about a world full of people, I dont get it! Theyre everywhere!

Problem is radiation is accumulative and bioaccumulative. We still have all the radiation from the nuclear bomb testing, and the environment is accumulating more and more radiation exponentially. So also will the disease, immune deficiency, cancer rates, and genetic instability increase exponentially. Every generation will inherit more physical and genetic problems and lowered IQ and lowered judgment, and still have to face even more radiation than the previous generation.

WNTF and TIS, so youre confident that the people of the world can come to ENEnews and find 2.5 million bombs worth of radiation released so far and be in the ballpark? …theres measurements around the globe, and they have to match up with that. Some of the sources I link are journal papers, and its pretty hard to argue unless you have better data. And if you are wrong by 2 million bombs, then I think we lose some credibility. So far, Im not at all convinced we are at 2.5 million Hiroshima bombs and counting

If people knew all the facts about how nuclear reactors would destroy their children from emissions on a regular day, and had the power, they never would have let this insanity spread all over the country.

So, for generations, nuclear has bought up all the politicians, the scientists, the labs, the celebrities, and so on, all to create something they refer to as "credibility."

Now, credibility is not truth, it is produced in order to hide truth.

If there is any doubt about this, try to find someone who wants nuclear in their backyard, even with all of the "credible" sources saying it is beneficial.

Which is more important, credibility or truth?

"Credibility" gave me thyroid disease at the age of eight, 9 miles from the nuclear plant that my elementary school would take us to visit on field trips.

nonukes, I follow your point. I think you can see that spouting a number that is way out of the ballpark is not truth and its not credibility either. There is no question nuclear kills and cant be contained. But we are talking Fukushima now, and I dont want to tell my associates theres three billion atomic bombs worth if there is only five thousand. What if the entire population of earth was going to read ENEnews…we would exercise some care. The exposure is upon us

I don't know that you're wrong. I just said consider the sources. You had both higher estimates and lower estimates. And it's been outlandishly gushing with no end in sight. It sounded low, that's all. I'm not a scientist.

The power line tower of units 5 & 6 fell over due to a collapse of the embankment
nuke engineers; "well, noboby could have anticipated that, but lesson learned for future safe nuclear"

At Fukushima now, what we’re seeing, all of this work that they’ve been doing with these walls and then it’s causing the water to back up
nuke engineers; "well, noboby could have anticipated that, but lesson learned for future safe nuclear"

there’s a spent fuel pool very precariously perched up above 5 floors. If the plant were to collapse — which it’s been showing signs of doing
nuke engineers; "well, noboby could have anticipated that, but lesson learned for future safe nuclear"

the terrifying outflow of contaminated water pouring through the Fukushima site is a clear and present threat to all living things in the Pacific Ocean and to human life in general
nuke engineers; "well, noboby could have anticipated that, but lesson learned for future safe nuclear"

"Well I’m standing by the river
But the water doesn’t flow
It boils with every poison you can think of
And I’m underneath the streetlight
But the light of joy I know
Scared beyond belief way down in the shadows
And the perverted fear of violence
Chokes the smile on every face
And common sense is ringing out the bell
This ain’t no technological breakdown
Oh no, this is the road to hell

And all the roads jam up with credit
And there’s nothing you can do
It’s all just pieces of paper flying away from you
Oh look out world, take a good look
What comes down here
You must learn this lesson fast and learn it well
This ain’t no upwardly mobile freeway
Oh no, this is the road
Said this is the road
This is the road to hell"

Havn't listened to radio broadcast but watched TepGov video. As I have stated before all treatment of water involves mostly cesium removal. TepGov video confirms this. Strontium and other isotopes must be accumulating in coolant water. That is why coolant water eventually gets removed and stored in tanks of 1000 ton capacity. Too much strontium cloggs up machinery. Imagine all that water shaking around during an earthquake. Unclear how they can treat the stored water so it can be safely dumped into the Pacific. That part of the plan isn't mentioned in TepGov video. What is water incineration facility? Do they boil off the water? Or are they incinerating the cesium they are collecting?
Today is a sunny day. Gotta bounce. Peace.

As the EPA continues to refuse to do anything about it, the fire is 1,000 feet away from the illegally dumped nuclear waste. Strange that the fire has been '1,000 feet' away from the illegal nuclear waste for a couple of months now when it used to be described as 'fast moving'. Hmm.

I suspect that it's closer, or possibly even there already. Something else that aroused suspicion (though I can't get a confirm) is that the CDC just recently ordered 2.79 million doses of an anti-radiation drug from a corp named Amgen. But by "coincidence," 2.79 is the exact population of greater St. Louis.

Why order 2.79 million? Round it off to 3 million, or at least 2.8 million. Again, I DON'T KNOW. It just looks strange. Just putting this out there.

That's all folks…..obi wan kenobi isn't coming….When dealing with this kind of catastrophe "Here be dragons" no one….not even the best physicist knows exactly how this will all end. There are no good outcomes only different degrees of going from really bad to much worse.

We have a few months so make peace with whatever God you believe in and make preparations for trying to survive. Life will go on….maybe…somewhere in the southern hemisphere….it may not look or exactly be human like we are but maybe that's a good thing….humans like us got us into this so maybe we should go extinct….at least the nuclear physicists who brought us this Prometheus fire should go extinct….Perhaps we were not ready morally for such a gift, perhaps it wasn't theirs to give but we took the stolen goods from them and now we will all have to pay the price.

I doubt that picture is from Fukushima. It looks like a photo out of a catalog.

Either way, the entire site is turning liquid. Every building is in danger of collapsing into a twisted pile of rubble. Not a single engineering plan considered the possibility of structural damage of any structure there surviving intact on top of watery mud.

All they hope for now is that it goes fast and gets swallowed up by the ocean as quickly as possible.

Sorry Obi but these are the droids we were looking for….Tepco droids Now if we can it's time for us Technomage's to leave for another place before the darkness comes….because it is coming and nothing can stop it now.

And it seems to be history is a "one way only road".., considering the absence of breaks in our "vehicle" aka "culture" aka "technological progress"..
And if there are breaks, then they are not working i dare to say..

My instinct is, no matter what the **story Du Jour** is being served about FUKU, we need to not panic for several reasons.

* SPF fire reported in docs from the get-go tell how its already hit the fan long ago.

*Like another poster said, they held tours standing about the draped spf4 which from the outside looked odd….. but OBVIOUSLY proved that the danger was not present, arguably in a super dangerous way. Why the hell would they have done that if they couldn't?

* If an imminent topple was to bring forth a ravishing devastation you can bet your very ass they would be evacuating the plant and the area in droves. They are not. Because there is no big danger.

Usually in my postulations I often wish to be wrong. This time I hope and think my intuition is right.

I honestly haven't seen ANYTHING about that site that does not look dangerous. Even that the picture of SFP4 showed it "draped" makes no sense. What kind of a "drape"? That would not protect anyone from anything, so if there, it was there for another reason. Or a photo of a different part of the site?

What they are contemplating, the removal of the fuel rods, is INSANE. So they must think that the danger of NOT doing it might be even worse.

The circus tents, the photo-shopping…clues everywhere that it is and hasn't been what has been told. Thats why I literally refuse to allow it to destroy my mind or heart and personal peace. For the first six months I even avoided being rained on and I live in BC so that's saying something! At this stage, I am free of it in a sense, it hasn't been easy, but I just refuse to let such lying ass LIARS ruin my life or my life direction. We have to have a clear head to testify later. You are so right, if they COULD have done something constructive and proactive it surely needed to be done EARLIER while they actually could get it done. They have dilly dallied and completely saturated the grounds (WHY WHY WHY) under completely already precarious reactors and they now seem to be in a call to action when the rads are too heavy to navigate? You could drive yourself crazy trying to fathom such complete dysfunction and disarray.

I keep getting my comment removed for linking a person's website that has hi res photos from above Fuku. Is there something I should know about the freelance reporter Jim Stone? His photos are amazing, I am not sure why this is being censored.

Yes , plenty ..all western cultures have build the road to hell on this finite planet in my view..but not all equally agressif..
But if usa does something "National Security" then i think its good for israel too.. just saying..

If your a thinking person, here is something to ponder. The substance called uranium had been played with by humans long before the element was isolated and named. Metal working has been around for millennia. There are physical properties of uranium that are unique to the substance and must have been very interesting to the people. How many people were sacrificed in the gradual learning process all the way up to where it was found that among the same element there were species that differed in weight and properties? The person who invented nuclear bombs surely must have blown himself up. His neighbor thought to himself,"Wow, Mr. Smith was playing around with that stuff, and look what happened." Imho, the names attached to the advances in the understanding of this great evil probably borrowed the knowledge from the poor soul who sacrificed his life out of curiosity in a phenomenon.

Yep..enough blame to go around.
But there is no one in the world that can convince me that Israel is not watching reactors..
They say they were denied access by the Japanese government…I don't believe it…

Israeli Security Firm in Charge at Japanese Nuke Facilities Prior to Disaster

March 18 2011

"The Arava-based Magna BSP company, which specializes in producing and installing stereoscopic sensory and thermal imaging cameras, had been contracted to place cameras around one of the plant’s six cores – the core that has been experiencing explosions and overheating.

Speaking to The Jerusalem Post on Monday, Magna’s head, Haim Siboni, said the thermal cameras also had the ability to detect the presence of radioactive clouds in the air, but added that Magna had not been able to gain access to the images recorded by the cameras at this time."

See the white smoke (reactor on) the center of the screen comparison of 6:00 and 7:00 and 6:15 on March 2011! Wall of the nuclear fuel pool side intact!
The screen of 7:00, it appears to have different wall of the nuclear fuel pool side collapses!

This is Google translate: "See the white smoke (reactor on) the center of the screen comparison of 6:00 and 7:00 and 6:15 on March 2011! Wall of the nuclear fuel pool side intact!
The screen of 7:00, it appears to have different wall of the nuclear fuel pool side collapses! However, are you by raising the black smoke reactor and on northwest corner!"

I remember seeing a whole sequence of pictures from this camera. But I can't remember where they are just now.

“… [about Fukushima reactors exploding] … occasioning a prodigious explosion of radioactivity and radiotoxicity which over time, is several times the amount needed to kill by internal contamination the whole human race.” – Dr Paolo Scampa, PhD., Nuclear Physicist.

I have noticed that public discussion of reactor 4 is usually accompanied by unusually high spikes in radiation, 10x, 20x or more. Such spikes are common these days, yet always with discussion of reactor 4.

If there was really a danger of a collapse of Unit4, wouldn't they simply dispense with the testing of the new cranes, and get on with fuel removal? Just asking.

My thought is that almost all of the official attention on SFP4 is for the sole purpose of diverting attention away from two things:
1. The problem of three missing nuclear cores, lost in the Earth below Reactor Buildings 1-3.
2. The releases which have already occurred, which will over time take down the nation of Japan, the State of Hawaii, and the West Coast of the US and Canada to the Rocky Mountains, and which is destroying the Pacific Ocean Seafood Industry.

Axiom:
When you have a really big problem, and small problem, draw the public's attention to the small problem.

Exactly – a cruel game of dominoes. Radiation reminds me of a throbbing injury but instead it radiates poisons and cellular chaos. Fuku unchecked will get SO COMPLETELY toxic it will radiate like a circle from it source, so potent at the center wafting out getting weaker but still deadly. All the while getting STRONGER AND STRONGER at its middle until one day, a thousand years from now it will begin to lessen in toxicity for the next several hundred years. Close to reality it this shitter blows?

Fukushima Daiichi Site: Cesium-137 is 85 times greater than at Chernobyl Accident
Posted on26 September 2013.
“Japan’s former Ambassador to Switzerland, Mr. Mitsuhei Murata, was invited to speak at the Public Hearing of the Budgetary Committee of the House of Councilors on March 22, 2012, on the Fukushima nuclear power plants accident. Before the Committee, Ambassador Murata strongly stated that if the crippled building of reactor unit 4—with 1,535 fuel assemblies in the spent fuel pool 100 feet (30 meters) above the ground—collapses, not only will it cause a shutdown of all six reactors but will also affect the common spent fuel pool containing 6,375 fuel assemblies, located some 50 meters from reactor 4. In both cases the radioactive assemblies are not protected by a containment vessel; dangerously, they are open to the air. This would certainly cause a global catastrophe like we have never before experienced. He stressed that the responsibility of Japan to the rest of the world is immeasurable. Such a catastrophe would affect us all for centuries. Ambassador Murata informed us that the total numbers of the spent fuel assemblies at the Fukushima Daiichi site excluding the assemblies in the pressure vessel is 11,421 (396+615+566+1,535+994+940+6375)….” http://www.shoah.org.uk/2013/09/26/fukushima-daiichi-site-cesium-137-is-85-times-greater-than-at-chernobyl-accident/

Arnie designed the fuel racks.
Tepco doubled the capacity by removing the empty spaces between the bundles, cutting the safety threshold in half.
More assemblies per bundle plus less space between equals disaster waiting to happen.
They aint about to try to remove them.
Its all BS. No boron, damaged racks and bundles, top handles burned off. We have all seen the pics..
Who do they think theyre fooling?

@W8R
"Arnie designed the fuel racks"
Arnie – you mean that Arnie Gunderson, you are shure?
If yes, now i know why i didnt trust his "well balanced" messages since the beginning.
I've seen many many faces and i know how a soup seller looks like.
He argues against melt through on his site too. -??????-
Simply i dont trust his messages nor him as he makes money with his discussions on Fukushima Accident.
Sometimes i become even angry about people always arguing with his
messages.
I wont ever!

I think poor Joseph Miller is pro nuclear which is probably why he hasn't written anything about Fukushima in the last year or two. Pretty hard to be pro nuke as this disaster continues to unfold and to say we might be on the eve of destruction is not a chicken little mentality.

The so-called "Competent Authorities" have lost their credibility. The government agencies, the political military, industrial, corporate factors, promoters and regulators of nuclear power have lost public trust. So even apocalyptic rant on Enenews seems sensible…

>"…the worst is not So long as we can say 'This is the worst.'"< Shakespeare, King Lear, Act IV

W8R, they aren't telling us everything. I think its lies on top of lies. Remember TEPCO still works on the hope they can start up all their other reactors and generate revenue to pay back loans and bring the company back. Nobody but Tepco really knows whats going on. But their mission is to save the company at any cost not fix the triple meltdown at any cost. It could be lies stopping the marines from taking over the site. But why Russia, China and Korea have banned Japanese fish and not Canada or USA is puzzling and dissapointing.

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